LA comes to town tomorrow night and it's going to be a fun one. They're probably the team I most enjoy watching the revs beat, especially if it's a true beatdown. Will be interesting to see how the revs respond after last week's scoreless snoozefest. Going with a 3-1 win.
He's going to do what Beckham did his first trip to Foxboro in '07 - sit on the bench and wink at the huge crowd there to see him play, but never see the field.
Solid first half, especiallyein the final third. Just waswmissing that fibal pass but the opportunities have been there. Good response to the red and their tying goal. Farrell takes a lot of crap but that cross and finish by Caicedo was executed perfection. Need to keep the foot on the accelerator. Sticking with my 3-1, Teal buries one to put the nail in their coffin. Stay focused boys.
to Brad: Coaching 101 - if it ain't broke, dont fix it. We were in control until you started subbing late. Taking Juan off caused us to lose the midfield. Bing, bing....we lose. This one was totally Brad's fault
Loss was seriously against the run of play IMHO. Sebiga was seriously on tilt (to use a poker term), same foul in two directions (arm bar to breaking offensive player) was a non call when it happened to Diego and a yellow for professional foul to Caicedo three minutes later. Bizarre sequence a few minutes later when Caicedo was blasted after the play was over by Kitchen -- no call. I thought he'd lost the game early by not showing yellows (one each way) on clearly yellow-worthy plays.
Had we kept the original 10 on the pitch, and lost, almost everyone would be howling about coaching. When you play a man down for the majority of the match, you have to substitute for the guys who do the majority of the running (and I thought Juan was definitely gassed). Juan being off didn't cause Anibaba to not play the ball in the box to clear it on the winning goal.
They were exhausted and playing down a man for over an hour and you think making a sub was a bad idea?
I agree with Cannons. I'd rather tired legs that are obviously controlling the game than fresh legs that are not on the same page as the rest of the team.
how'd the subs work out? Juan looked OK to me. His coming out caused us to lose control of the midfield and was a main reason we ended up in out own end at the end of the game and we know how that ended up. If you think back... all their attack was on our right side... where Juan was
It was not a fair result....judging by the first 90 minutes. But that overtime? It was brutal, but it was fair. Our defensive mistake on the winning goal was awful........A loss in front of 40,000.....sigh
As a 13-year season-ticket holder, I have three thoughts 1) MLS really has to get on Kraft's case to build a grass field. If he can't hack the Boston zoning, politics, and unions, then build the damn thing at the man mall. 2) Friedel owns this one. If we are going to lose anyway, lose with Juan, Teal, and Diego, who "forechecked" the hell out of LA and kept them on their heels, and then did exciting things in the final third. After the subs, the Revs looked lost. Is it those darn harnesses that the technical staff makes them wear nowadays? Computer says they are gassed; I guess they have to come out. 3) Why is Dielna in the line-up? He is always in the vicinity of trouble...Maybe we should see if Heaps is in playing condition...or Joey Franchino.
I think they meant that late in the game. If a sub had been made say 75-80 minutes it may have helped more than 88th minute onward.
[OK, I just watched the replay now that I am home, and I guess that last goal was pretty much Anibaba...]